{"id":7478,"date":"2013-11-26T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2013-11-25T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:06:39","slug":"pumpkin-banana-bread-with-vanilla-bean-glaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7478","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Banana Bread with Vanilla Bean Glaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I keep forgetting that this is Thanksgiving week. Maybe it’s because I lost a week due to the flu, but I feel like my holiday circadian rhythm is all off. To rectify this, I figured baking with pumpkin puree would get me back on track.<\/p>\n

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But plain old pumpkin bread struck me as a little mundane, and pumpkin pie was more commitment than I was willing to pony up. Then I spotted the over-ripe bananas on the counter and immediately Googled “pumpkin banana bread”. This recipe<\/a> sounded promising, so out came all the ingredients.<\/p>\n

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As it so happens, Trader Joe’s was having a big sale on vanilla beans so last week, I’d scooped a couple packages up at this hitherto unheard of price of $3.99 per pack of two. The recipe is very adamant about the vanilla bean glaze, and now that I’ve sampled the bread\/cake, I have to agree. It adds a flourish of fancy visually, but also amps up the flavor of the pumpkin-banana blend. You definitely don’t want to skip the glaze (though I didn’t add a full tablespoon of the paste – more like a teaspoon).<\/p>\n

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The only change I made was to add 1\/4 cup of Greek yogurt. I had three bananas which is what the recipe calls for, but somehow one disappeared while I went to go run an errand before tackling the baking – these disappearances happen a lot in our household. The yogurt was a good move, and the bread has a lovely texture that’s not exactly fluffy but not dense either. It tastes like holiday cheer to me, which was exactly what I needed. Delish.<\/p>\n

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I keep forgetting that this is Thanksgiving week. Maybe it’s because I lost a week due to the flu, but I feel like my holiday circadian rhythm is all off. To rectify this, I figured baking with pumpkin puree would get me back on track. But plain old pumpkin bread struck me as a little mundane, and pumpkin pie was more commitment than I was willing to pony up. Then I spotted the over-ripe bananas on the counter and immediately Googled “pumpkin banana bread”. This recipe sounded promising, so out came all the ingredients. As it so happens, Trader Joe’s was having a big sale on vanilla beans so last week, I’d scooped a couple packages up at this hitherto unheard of price of $3.99 per pack of two. The recipe is very adamant about the vanilla bean glaze, and now that I’ve sampled the bread\/cake, I have to agree. It adds a flourish of fancy visually, but also amps up the flavor of the pumpkin-banana blend. You definitely don’t want to skip the glaze (though I didn’t add a full tablespoon of the paste – more like a teaspoon). The only change I made was to add 1\/4 cup of Greek yogurt. I had three bananas which is what the recipe calls for, but somehow one disappeared while I went to go run an errand before tackling the baking – these disappearances happen a lot in our household. The yogurt was a good move, and the bread has a lovely texture that’s not exactly fluffy but not dense either. It tastes like holiday cheer to me, which was exactly what I needed. Delish.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cooking","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7488,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}